To clarify: Tox wrote some post about "faceless monkeys" working in the background on site, at which point I decided to fuck with him and have them be literal proboscis monkeys lacking any feature on their aside from a nose.

As for the SCP itself, very novel for a goofy RP, doesn't translate that well to SCP form without any kind of further development.

I don't get what making facial-feature-less proboscis monkeys has to do with advancing human intelligence. Or at least, I suppose I can see how they'd try it out on monkeys first, but why proboscis monkeys, why remove the facial features, why make them engineers?

I assume the facial features probably followed after success of the removal of the digestive system, and at that point they were just like "fuck it let's see what removing other shit does". As for engineering, I imagine they wanted to see if they were intelligent enough to do something complex.

I have no valid argument for the specific use of proboscis monkeys, though.

The writing quality itself is there. Conceptually, I feel like this lacks some sort of unifying vision.

There's ingredients of overdone concepts sloshing around in here: faceless things (I get the feeling the nose thing was just to deflect accusations of Slendermonkey), sapient animals, Area 51-esque shenanigans, etc. None of it is really coming together for me.

Overall, this feels exactly like something goofy born out of chat, which can work, I suppose, but often doesn't.

I think it's well-written, but… Really? Just … snatch the joke faceless monkeys from Far Recon and write them up? Really? Do we have, like, an idea famine or something? I mean, I vaguely enjoyed the article, but it just seems kind of a waste. But maybe I'm biased, so I'll hold off on voting for now and maybe I'll like it more later, maybe.

This isn't an attempt at just doing an idea because I'm out of 'em. I just thought they were an idea that could actually be turned into an SCP. I mean, I think Roget and I did a fairly good job at turning them into a serious concept.